Sign In. Episode guide. Crime Drama Mystery. Creators Ted Childs Susan Rogers. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos Top cast Edit. Danny Midwinter Gary as Gary …. Robert Ashby D. Bryce as D. Oliver Ford Davies. Peter Foxcott 27 Episodes Alison Steadman. Josette Simon. Kevin McKidd. Robin Bailey. Geraldine James. Lena Headey. Paul Rhys. Sheila Hancock. Daisy Bates. Frances Tomelty. Frederick Treves. Tom Brodie. Colin McCormack. It sometimes looks as if television has swallowed its own glib shorthand, and automatically believes that anything which is shot on film, features sunlit rural locations, lasts 30 minutes too long and drops in quotes from Shakespeare is self-evidently of a higher order than a soap or a game show.
Although handicapped by the melodramatic title of End Games, the final Kavanagh was a skilfully wrought specimen. The dangling threads of the series's personal and professional themes were deftly woven together by writer Stephen Churchett, and the show's pervasive air of time slowly winding down and the inevitability of creeping age and disappointment was kept subtly in play.
Nor was Kavanagh - his affair with Eleanor Harker already jeopardised by her departure for an interminable war crimes trial in The Hague - allowed to gallop off into his new future as head of the River Court chambers adorned with fresh courtroom laurels.
His bid to free the wrongly-convicted Jimmy Cracken foundered in the murk of the legal profession's impenetrable old boy network. This setback was given a further painful twist when Kavanagh's River Court partner, the preposterous yet conniving Jeremy Aldermarten, successfully freed another prisoner convicted in the same case, although Aldermarten's triumph was undercut by our knowledge that he had freed a guilty man.
Scroll below and you'll find what you're looking for. Nothing But the Truth. Kavanagh is called upon to defend an alleged rapist, David Armstrong, a young labourer accused of attacking the housewife he works for in her home.
Kavanagh is asked to prosecute an ex-police officer turned vigilante when he is the driver of a car which hits a teenager. A Family Affair. Kavanagh represents a determined father in a bitter custody battle, but finds himself having to persuade the eager dad not to take matters into his own hands after learning of his previous The Sweetest Thing.
Kavanagh defends a prostitute accused of murdering a wealthy and prominent businessman who was also a client. Everything points to her guilt except her own passionate protestations of innocence. True Committment. The daughter of a wealthy Jewish businessman and her boyfriend plan to murder a member of the neo-Nazi opposition.
They are successful in killing a year-old skinhead at a demonstration, yet when. Men of Substance. Kavanagh is forced to replace the prosecutor who suffers a heart attack while on a Customs case involving the importation of drugs from Holland.
The Burning Deck. Kavanagh represents the son of a Vice Admiral charged with arson. Despite his best efforts, the court finds Kavanagh's client guilty.
The truth of the matter, however, turns out to be more complex. A Sense of Loss.
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